The Hoekstra Family

Thursday, July 14, 2011

It's finally over!!!!!! My new coffee maker (the second one) finally arrived. Oh how I missed you frothy coffee. So the new one J ordered was supposed to be shipped while we were on vacation. I was so excited to arrive home to it. It was not here though. Panic again. Asked the neighbors, looked at the delivery confirmation, asked the house sitter. Nothing. No coffee maker to be found. Finally realized that it was coming US post office and we had the mail stopped. So finally late Tues it arrived. I made a cup right away and YUCK. Something was wrong. It was bad bad bad. So I called and complained. They were very nice and kept saying how sorry they were and how they would ship one out right away and thanks for our loyalty. So at the end I was saying bye and thank you and she said, "you should have that is about 2 weeks." NOOOOO didn't she know I had 3 little ones and could not make it 2 more weeks. Didn't she know that I was sooooo loyal that NO other coffee would do. Didn't she know I was barley making it thru the days as it was. OH my. I begged her to get it here faster. It got here a little faster but not much. Oh how happy I was when I pulled up to the house and saw it sitting on my front porch. Yummy goodness. I might have to order another on just to have for a back up. hehehhe

dinner

E is pretty much done with baby food. All the sudden. Guess that's how he rolls. No warnings he just does something. Jumps in with both feet not knowing what's ahead just knowing what's in the past. C did this around this age too but I had been giving her our food so she knew what was past the baby food. E didn't. He had not had our food until he was boycotting so hard I was worried he was going to starve. Just like with the nursing. He had no clue how he was going to get his milk just that he was not going to bfeed anymore to get it. He is crazy.

I still have to force baby food in him bc I don't cook enough to give him the food we are eating. Need to work on that. Anyway so far this week he has had spaghetti and meatballs and stuffed peppers. He loved both!!! Here he is with his peppers. My peppers recipe is great bc so healthy for him. Turkey meat, wheat rice, diced tomatoes, cheese, corn and of course the pepper.

10 years

10 years ago yesterday J and I met. It was a magical fairy tail Melissa style (we met in a bar). Pretty sure it was love at first sight. The minute we met we were pretty much inseparable. It was a Friday night in Austin, TX at the bar called The Drink on 6th. We were both there with friends against our will. I had been out the night before and worked all day and just wanted a couch night but Courtney drug me out. He had been "floatin" the river all day and was playing wing man for Jeff. He was tired and done and ready to leave too. Matt (Courtney's boyfriend) had called him and told him to stay out bc "Courtney's friends were hot!" Matt even brought J clothes bc he was still in his river floating attire. He had on a black backwards baseball hat and I thought he was a "bad boy." Hehehhe I knew how to pick them, a stinky river water bad boy. We were both at The Drink at the time but not standing with Courtney or Matt. He saw me and came up to me wo knowing I was one of the girls he was staying out to meet. We talked for a bit and hit it if off right away. I decided I needed to see if he was for real so I pulled the "going to the bathroom and not coming back trick." Wanted to see if he would come back up to me a second time. hehehehh I would have for sure gone back to him....eventually but I wanted to test him. He said wtf and came back to me!!! I was sure at that moment and suggested we go get a drink. I went up to the bar and bought our first drink together. (I was big on not letting guys buy me drink bc usually I didn't want to be stuck talking to them afterwards. plus I was all independent and had my own drink money!!) I bought us Jager Bombs and the rest is history. So yesterday I had totally forgotten but J didn't. This is what he came home with. He is sooooo sweet. Made my day. I love you honey!! Thank you so much for all you have given me. I love you and our beautiful children. I am a lucky women.